bogart

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 10, 2024 is:

bogart • \BOH-gahrt\ • verb

To bogart something is to use or consume it without sharing.

// Nelson advised his friends not to bogart all the snacks before the rest of the party guests arrived.

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"Producers of individual shows should not be allowed to shape any content but their own; otherwise, the telecast winds up being hijacked by beamed-in celebrities singing songs from terrible musicals no one’s yet seen. And as for those stage-swarming investors? Let’s ban them too. The awards they bogart belong to the authors." — Jesse Green, The New York Times, 2 June 2021

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The legendary film actor Humphrey Bogart was known for playing a range of tough characters in a series of films throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The African Queen. The men he portrayed often possessed a cool, hardened exterior that occasionally let forth a suggestion of romantic or idealistic sentimentality. Bogart also had a unique method of smoking cigarettes in these pictures—letting the butt dangle from his mouth without removing it until it was almost entirely consumed. It is believed that this habit inspired the current meaning of bogart, which was once limited to the phrase "Don't bogart that joint," as popularized by a song on the soundtrack to the film Easy Rider. Today, bogart can be applied to hogging almost anything.

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0:00.0	It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for May 10th.
0:07.0	Today's word is
0:12.0	today's word is Bogart, spelled B-O-G-A-R-A-R-A-G-A-R-A-G-A-R-A-G-A-G-A-G-N-G-G-A-R-T-B-R-T is a verb. To Bogart something is to use or consume
0:19.2	it without sharing. Here's the word used in a sentence from the New York Times by Jesse Green.
0:25.0	Producers of individual shows should not be allowed to shape any content but their own.
0:30.0	Otherwise, the telecast winds up being hijacked by beamed in celebrities singing songs from terrible
0:36.1	musicals no one's yet seen. And as for those stagewarming investors, Let's ban them too.
0:44.0	The awards they Bogart belong to the authors.
0:47.0	The legendary film actor Humphrey Bogart
0:50.0	was known for playing a range of tough characters
0:52.0	in a series of films throughout the 1940s and 50s,
0:55.5	including the Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and the African Queen.
0:59.9	The men he portrayed often possessed a cool-hardened exterior that occasionally let forth a suggestion of romantic or idealistic sentimentality. Bogart also had a unique method of smoking cigarettes in these pictures, letting the butt
1:14.2	dangle from his mouth without removing it until it was almost entirely consumed.
1:18.3	It's believed that this habit inspired the current meaning of the word Bogart, which was once
1:24.9	limited to the phrase don't Bogart that joint as popularized by a song on the
1:30.2	soundtrack to the film Easy Rider.
1:32.5	Today, Bogart can be applied to hogging almost anything.
1:36.4	With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
1:38.4	Visit Merriam Webster.com today, for definition. Visit Marion Webster
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